Our modern life has changed so much. Most of us no longer do the kind of tasks that could be centering and calming such as long walks to the store or to work, churning butter, plowing fields, tending animals, hanging laundry on the line and ironing. Just imagine how contemplative your life would be if you had long stretches of time, doing repetitive tasks, by yourself, with no podcast to listen to, no radio, no tv. What a different life that would be.
Your inner life would be so rich.
Living in a world with texts, tweets, cell phones and same day delivery, people are expecting everything to be delivered immediately. This has created additional stresses in a culture that has lost many of its meditative and contemplative tasks.
As part of my spiritual practice of nonviolence I learned the value of constantly monitoring my stress level. I pay particular attention to when I feel harried and rushed. It changed my life, many years ago, when I was rushing to get somewhere and I realized that the whole energetic I was creating within myself felt violent. I was trying to do too much, not leaving myself enough time to get somewhere, having to hurry–it all felt out of balance with my practice of nonviolence.
What was the underlying cause of my rushing?
I feel it was a deep sense of lack. When we believe we’re separate from Spirit, we’ll also have a profound sense of lack. And it shows up as lack of time, lack of energy, lack of money, lack of Love and so much more. An abundance of lack!
The times when we feel rushed and stressed and can recognize the sense of lack coming up into our awareness so that we will heal it rather than simply react and act it out, these are the golden times of our healing.
We don’t want to push the feelings away or repress them, instead, we choose healing.
We can learn to stay alert to moments when we’re feeling hurried, pressured or stressed. I look to see if I can find the calmness that can only come from within. I start with my breath. My mantra is “All is well.”
I am an infinite, eternal being who knows no lack.
I take to heart the words of Shunryu Suzuki from ZEN MIND, BEGINNER’S MIND, he writes “Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself.” I love That!
I take a 20 second meditation break. With my hand on my heart, I meditate on gratitude for my breath for the entire 20 seconds. In less than a minute I have shifted, if even slightly. I’ve made it clear to myself that I value peace. I value my own self-care. One more breath of gratitude and now I can resume the activities in a new awareness.
THAT is being masterful!
Here’s the deep well of my masterful spiritual practice. I know that my practice builds my inner peace by whittling away at the sense of separation. Each day I have the opportunity to move the world in a direction of peace through my nonviolent choice and actions. I am grateful to even see the possibility of being masterful!
This Saturday I’m offering one of my most popular workshops: Unblock the Flow of Your Time, Energy & Money. If you have issues that trigger you emotionally, causing worry, fear or doubt, this workshop is for you. For those in Masterful Living this year this workshop is just one of many bonuses!
Would you like to have lasting transformation this year? Traveling this path of letting go of the painful past and releasing compulsive fearful thinking is a path of Freedom. Many folks in this Power of Love community are proving it’s possible even when they thought it wasn’t. Dissolving difficult thought patterns is the kind of work we do in my Masterful Living Program.
What could you do or accomplish in the coming year that would be more valuable than letting go of the root causes of fear, pain and all suffering? Why wait? Why delay? You will choose it eventually.
If you feel called to join us, follow your intuition. You can book an Exploratory Call with one of the spiritual counselors to discuss any questions you have about Masterful Living and that’s a free call!
People who do this work with us in the Masterful Living Program are often amazed at how their bodies heal and their families heal, and for some it improves their finances in the most unexpected and remarkable ways. It’s deeply healing to us individually and to those around us, because we share the same mind.
If people didn’t prove it all the time in Masterful Living, we could never believe that the practical application of these principles would heal their marriage, their arthritis, or their body so they’re no longer spending thousands on medications and treatments. Who would imagine that surgeries would no longer be needed or that their income would double, triple, quadruple without doing anything different to improve their business?
Once people prove that changing their mind heals their life and body, they get excited for what else might be possible.
So many relationships are healed, families mended and transformed for the participants of Masterful Living. Come join us this coming year!
